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Youth in Community Policing Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Ernie Cowles and Co-principal Investigator: Lee Frost-Kumpf

In March 2000 the Center for Legal Studies was awarded a grant from the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission to conduct an evaluation of 20 Youth In Community Policing programs throughout the state. These programs were designed to create partnerships between youth, police and adults in the community to address community problems and quality of life issues. The youth were involved in helping to design these programs and were encouraged to take an active leadership role in them. Projects range from creating a city recreational area, to preparing a video dealing with the relationships between police and youth, to establishing a peer jury program. This project is currently underway and is schedule to be completed in June 2001.